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| - I would really love to love this place, given the excellent location and how the small and intimate setting has potential, but I'm afraid it's overrated.
I've been here on a weekday and on a weekend, and yes, it gets packed. The last time - it'll also likely be the last-last time - we walked in, hesitated because nobody acknowledged us, before settling in to a small four-person table. A couple minutes later, we were oddly asked to get up from our seats and head to the cramped corner space at the bar because that table was "for larger groups", only to watch as two other patrons walked in behind us to sit at the table we'd just been shooed from. Not the best start.
It took an uncomfortably long time to have someone come by our table (so long we actually considered leaving). A couple glasses of wine and a cheese platter later - the cheese selection went unexplained - I was ready to get out of there, although I had come in famished and ready to splurge on a copious amount of tapas.
Too bad. What should be a warm and friendly place seems oddly fixated on appearances, on being a place to see and be seen. The atmosphere is 'off'. Hip? Maybe, but the kind that comes off as cold rather than cool.
The neat thing about sitting at the bar in the corner is that you get to watch the chef plate the food. He was friendly too, which unfortunately was the only genuinely enjoyable part of my time here.
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